CAP BILLY MITCHELL EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
apogee - ✔✔highest point of orbit
✔✔COMSAT - ✔✔communications satellite
✔✔perigee - ✔✔lowest point of orbit
✔✔GNSS - ✔✔Global Navigation Satellite System
✔✔GPS - ✔✔Global Positioning System
✔✔kepler - ✔✔discovered satellites of jupiter
✔✔year that sputnik was launched - ✔✔1957
✔✔How many artificial satellites - ✔✔over 24,00
✔✔What was first coms satellite and what year - ✔✔Score, 1958
✔✔1st commercial satellite and year? - ✔✔1962, Telstar 1
✔✔ITSO - ✔✔International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, world's largest
commercial satellite communications provider; now called INTELSAT
✔✔TDRSS - ✔✔covereage for low earth-orbiting satellites, relays data
✔✔1st nav satellite for polaris missile submarines? - ✔✔Transit
✔✔1st probe to photograph Moon before apollo? - ✔✔Rangers
✔✔What program took flybys of Mercury, Venus, and Mars? - ✔✔Mariner
, ✔✔Mission for Jupiter and Saturn - ✔✔Pioneer, Voyager 1 + 2
✔✔Mission for Mars - ✔✔Viking
✔✔Gave 1st theory of motion of celestial bodies, which was geocentric - ✔✔Ptolemy
✔✔Gave heliocentric theory - ✔✔Copernicus
✔✔Kepler's 1st law - ✔✔Orbit of a planet is an ellipse with sun at the focus
✔✔x-37 - ✔✔Advances in tech flight demonstrator - military space plane
✔✔Join project with Soviet union - ✔✔Apollo-Soyuz, 1975
✔✔Achieved 1st walk in space & 2 man capsule - ✔✔Gemini, 2nd program
✔✔1st manned spaceflight - ✔✔Mercury, 1st program
✔✔Project putting laboratory in space - ✔✔Skylab, 1973
✔✔1st man in space - ✔✔Yuri Gagarin
✔✔1st woman in space - ✔✔Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
✔✔1st to walk in space - ✔✔Alexei Leonov, 1965
✔✔Soviet Union's 1st space station - ✔✔Salyut 1
✔✔US 1st satellite - ✔✔Explorer 1, 1958
✔✔Space Shuttle - ✔✔enterprise used for testing
✔✔1st US spacewalk - ✔✔Ed White
✔✔Mission that put Sally Ride in space - ✔✔Challenger
✔✔Mission used for Hubble - ✔✔Discovery
✔✔ISS - ✔✔1998, purpose to complete long-term exploration
✔✔Largest satellite in space - ✔✔ISS
QUESTIONS SET A+
apogee - ✔✔highest point of orbit
✔✔COMSAT - ✔✔communications satellite
✔✔perigee - ✔✔lowest point of orbit
✔✔GNSS - ✔✔Global Navigation Satellite System
✔✔GPS - ✔✔Global Positioning System
✔✔kepler - ✔✔discovered satellites of jupiter
✔✔year that sputnik was launched - ✔✔1957
✔✔How many artificial satellites - ✔✔over 24,00
✔✔What was first coms satellite and what year - ✔✔Score, 1958
✔✔1st commercial satellite and year? - ✔✔1962, Telstar 1
✔✔ITSO - ✔✔International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, world's largest
commercial satellite communications provider; now called INTELSAT
✔✔TDRSS - ✔✔covereage for low earth-orbiting satellites, relays data
✔✔1st nav satellite for polaris missile submarines? - ✔✔Transit
✔✔1st probe to photograph Moon before apollo? - ✔✔Rangers
✔✔What program took flybys of Mercury, Venus, and Mars? - ✔✔Mariner
, ✔✔Mission for Jupiter and Saturn - ✔✔Pioneer, Voyager 1 + 2
✔✔Mission for Mars - ✔✔Viking
✔✔Gave 1st theory of motion of celestial bodies, which was geocentric - ✔✔Ptolemy
✔✔Gave heliocentric theory - ✔✔Copernicus
✔✔Kepler's 1st law - ✔✔Orbit of a planet is an ellipse with sun at the focus
✔✔x-37 - ✔✔Advances in tech flight demonstrator - military space plane
✔✔Join project with Soviet union - ✔✔Apollo-Soyuz, 1975
✔✔Achieved 1st walk in space & 2 man capsule - ✔✔Gemini, 2nd program
✔✔1st manned spaceflight - ✔✔Mercury, 1st program
✔✔Project putting laboratory in space - ✔✔Skylab, 1973
✔✔1st man in space - ✔✔Yuri Gagarin
✔✔1st woman in space - ✔✔Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
✔✔1st to walk in space - ✔✔Alexei Leonov, 1965
✔✔Soviet Union's 1st space station - ✔✔Salyut 1
✔✔US 1st satellite - ✔✔Explorer 1, 1958
✔✔Space Shuttle - ✔✔enterprise used for testing
✔✔1st US spacewalk - ✔✔Ed White
✔✔Mission that put Sally Ride in space - ✔✔Challenger
✔✔Mission used for Hubble - ✔✔Discovery
✔✔ISS - ✔✔1998, purpose to complete long-term exploration
✔✔Largest satellite in space - ✔✔ISS
